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- Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:47 am
- Forum: Brain Metastases
- Topic: Charity-Linac radiosurgery+WBRT(1)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8855
are these two new mets or the old ones recurred?
Charity - why wouldn't they do a radiosurgery again on this 2 new mets? What size they are?
- Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:50 am
- Forum: Scan Types and Follow-Up
- Topic: false positives on the bone scan
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5757
false positives on the bone scan
In the beginning - 3 years ago - when doctors were doing staging for Ivan which is basically the question if there is only primary tumour (stage 3 for ASPS) or also distant mets (stage 4), he had 2 false positive findings by the bone scan: 1. upper head of the shoulder bone was positive - ruled out ...
- Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:37 am
- Forum: Scan Types and Follow-Up
- Topic: Scans to detect ASPS in the body
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9426
the same
Charity - I actually do not know, Ivan has only had a CT with contrast for the abdomen at some point as an annual abdomen check up - his oncologist do not want to do it more frequent as she thinks that most of the liver, kidney, spleen are well seen on the lungs CT. The rest of the CT scans - lungs ...
- Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:33 am
- Forum: Medical Publications
- Topic: Alveolar soft-part sarcoma: a cardiac metastasis
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4775
Alveolar soft-part sarcoma: a cardiac metastasis
New article announced on the PubMed (published in the Am J Clin Oncol. 2006 Aug;29(4):422-3.) Alveolar soft-part sarcoma: a cardiac metastasis as a rare site of relapse. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16891875&query_hl...
- Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:52 am
- Forum: TKI
- Topic: Avastin(Bevacizumab)+Nexavar(sorafenib)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 12572
Avastin(Bevacizumab)+Nexavar(sorafenib)
Bonnie - I answer to you here to keep it classified. It is very good news that Ashley is stable on this combo and that her primary is showing such a high % of necrosis. ASPS is a highly vascular tumour and angiogenesis inhibitors may have an application in their treatment. As far as I know there is ...
- Wed Jul 26, 2006 5:04 am
- Forum: Radiation
- Topic: Neutron therapy
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6642
Neutron therapy
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab - which is located close to Chicago) has listed ASPS between the histologies Neutron therapy is appropriate - probably they had a success using it. This is the link to the list: http://www-bd.fnal.gov/ntf/what_is/softtissue.html and there the links to ...
- Wed Jul 26, 2006 2:50 am
- Forum: Other Metastases
- Topic: Question for anyone who has had a lymph node metastasis
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6851
it is rare but cases are known
I will have to post for the member who is not here anymore - it is Pamela Ham. She had whole bunch of the lymph nodes closest to the primary in her leg infected after the surgery for the primary resection and it was accidentally found that some of the resected ones were ASPS affected. I also have se...